Will the release of the report on Israel's own secret Nuke program be covered in the MSN?

From Frank Gaffney as reported in Information Clearing House:

"Finally. After many years of official hypocrisy, a US president appears to be playing hardball with Israel. The other day, the US government declassified a 1987 report documenting Israel’s secret nuclear weapons program.

What does it mean? Nothing at all . And that is the point . Seemingly coherent rhetoric with the intent to overwhelm and confuse. It is another way of taking control of the discourse (I can't call it dialogue.) and to silence . It is a sort of Prep School method. But revealing of Lenchner's sophomoric mind.

Is this guy Warren's campaign manager? If so, very very creepy and telling that Warren may be nothing more than a puppet out of her league.

Yes, she does indeed. Word for word. But the weather seems to be slowly changing. She and others will put their toes out once they know it is safe.

For now, she and others understand that they will be destroyed if they dare go off script.

One sign of changing weather is: That threats of political destruction have been made to Congress over failure to attend and cheer Netanyahu are being exposed for what they are: an appalling threat to the US government by foreign interests.

If this gets legs in the media and mind of the public (unlikely for now) politicians will turn like an abused dog who turns on his abusive master.

This is what the AIPACs of the world don't seem to see -- that their dogs in Congress may turn from decades of treats ($$) to obey commands, or abusive beatings (destruction of political careers and defamation. )

Nope. That is the most recent meme of propaganda in both Israel and in placed like Breitbart, which quotes propagandist ib Chief, Krauthamer;

"The one place he’s actively trying to change the regime is in Israel. He’s doing everything he can to outmaneuver, to humiliate, to insult, to give the back of the hand to Bibi Netanyahu knowing that for any Israeli Prime Minister jeopardizing the US-Israeli relationship could be fatal at the polls, and that’s exactly what Obama is doing” he declared...."

You see, this is being twisted that it is Obama who is putting the "relationship" in troubled waters, not Netanyahu .

This is how propagandist work when they start loosing. It is one of the final bottom of barrel last tactics.

Yarmouth is clearly not a stooge. His obvious clear-headed expression and honesty to his constituents is putting his Congressional colleagues to shame.

Every word in his letter is rich with meaning.

"The speech is scheduled less than two weeks before Israeli elections and there is a demonstrable risk that Netanyahu will use the perception of congressional support in his campaign. He did it before. A television ad for his 2013 campaign begins with a shot of the U.S. Capitol, and has footage of rousing applause from members. (House ethics rules prohibit members of Congress from using such footage in political ads.)"

In this paragraph alone he points out not only the wrong appearance for Congress enabling tactics that would be a major ethical breach for these members themselves, but that Netanyahu has no problem with using the US Congress for his own unethical and slimy campaigning .

It's happening. The breakdown and disconnect of the lobby hold over the interest of the United States, that is.

The honorable Congressman Yarmouth has just come out with a statement as to why he will not grace Netanyahu with his presence and forced ovations to be monitored and counted by outside groups to measure his loyalty to a foreign government . Of course his language is even and eloquent, but that is what he means.

The concern of a false flag is real, but if that were to happen at this moment the potential for a massive backfire is great.

The US desire for normalized relations with Iran are simply too great. The will is more than political, but for long term security and....industrial and economic interests. In the longer run these interest are vastly greater than Israel. (And that is one of the true concerns for Israel.)

I suspect Israel will not get away with a false flag at this juncture. And the damage to Israel would be absolutely enormous.

Let's rather hope the Israeli PM simply reveals himself for the lunatic he is and his handlers in the US for the deranged traitors and stooges they are .

@Kathleen, yes it is interesting mantra. One, Israel is not an ally of the US. There is not, and cannot be treaty of alliance as Israel does not have even the basics of defined borders. Until that happens, an ally status is not shared.

Two, countries , nations, do not have friends, but only interests.

Friendships are the stuff of human emotions only.

Now if these talking heads, say "Israel is a state that shares I interests with The US....blah blah" that might cause some thinking and questioning and is why we do not hear truthful language.

This is an interesting update. IF the FBI has such videos, they will not surface.

There was a time when I believed law enforcement, courts and federal agencies worked according to "the law of the land" and for all. But sadly that is not so. The FBI, for example, reports to and is funded by some very powerful interests. They will not make enemies in high places only to lose funding and have careers ruined.

The Dershbags and Princes of the world will be protected by those who also have lots at risk if they go down .

There is a reason Epstein was protected by the government and why those damning videos (assuming they exist) are under lock or already destroyed.

His line is that Congress has the authority to invite anyone they want . And with that he is right, but he fails to say that when a head of state, national leader is invited, there is coordination with the Administration. And of course there is, but the media not call Boehner out on that. And that -- no coordination -- is where the protocol was violated.

Next Boehner follows up with the AIPAC line, that Iran is a terrible threat....blah blah. Here, too, the media allows him to rant on.

Meanwhile Bloomberg reports that Israel's Mossad has gone rogue and does not support Netanyahu's fear mongering on Iran.

With the vast majority of Americans in support of normalized relations with Iran (we are "friends" with some much more horrible governments) support for our Congressional AIPAC puppets might blow away fast as this plays out.

And AIPAC will have to pour an even stiffer drink for Boehner to get him through the day.

And as this unfolds Netanyahu will be screaming Holocaust! AntiSemitism!!

Nettyanhooooo has not yet accepted the invitation. But no matter what this is not good for the AIPAC lobby.

If Bibi attempts to be a Statesman and gentleman (which he does not even know how to pretend to be one) and graciously (he don't do gracious) decline, he will look like a looser (Frier) at home and embarrass his puppets in the US Congress.

If he comes, essentially uninvited, he may wind up making a bigger fool of himself than he did in Paris.

Obama has nothing to loose and no need to smooth the feathers of those who have stabbed him and the American public in the back, so I suspect he will not break down and extend an invitation after the fact.

So here is to hoping the Netanyahu arrives and finds himself and his security detail taking a DC Transit bus to the halls of congress. And this time it is half empty with the Israel uber alles "staunch supporters" puppets.

May they all shame themselves.

PS. During the SOTU speech, there was live polling. Well over 90% of US citizens responded they want negotiations with Iran to be successful. Just shows who Congress is working for. Not the citizens of the US!

Kay24, I don't think characterizing a trade push with Asia, including India as targeting for another victim is correct. Eastern countries are not and will not be victims. They know what they are doing.

Yes, doing business with the west may become increasingly difficult as crimes, illegal occupation and other abuses come under the scope of the general public.

It is simply that doing business with near east Asia and Asia will be much easier. Reality is that many governments there do not care about abuses. Heck, officials in their own diplomatic corps. sell and trade their own fellow citizens for labor and trafficking. (That is a blanket statement, and can be supported, but would make this post too long.)

Israeli oligarchs and senior politicians seeking new partners to the east because of western "anti semitism" and Islamifcation is really rich.

Like I said, as the Zionist gig runs out of dough and partners, it will become increasingly desperate, while blaming all on its way down the drain.

I do believe Zionism, as we know it, will fade away. Not because the primitive human tendencies behind it and other expressions of superiority over others, nationalism, etc. will dissapear. That dark destructive stuff will always be with us in some form.

But at some point, and maybe soon, the Zionist enterprise will not pay anymore. There will be little more to squeeze out of the US and Europe to keep the enterprise alive.

There will be no incentive to immigrate where the majority of children live in poverty. Where conflict defines a people.

The oligarchs, who posses most all of Israeli trade and GDP, will have left for the shores of Lake Zurich or Monterey. Or join their partners in thieving a people -- the Gulf "royals" -- to their townhouses in London.

And Israel will be left with dwindling dupes of Zionist ideology blaming the world for abandoning them.

The really bad guys will have plundered and won off the backs of Zionists followers. And then new gig will be invented.

Yonah, that is absolute nonsense, the same stuff you have repeated before. Don't believe everything you hear, let alone repeat it as truth, especially a place you know nothing about.

As for that large and active center on Zurich --Stadt teil, Enge: there is a large community center and beautiful Synagogue,. (I walked past it daily for many years.) There are schools for the Jewish community and a yeshiva. Often, men walking in that neighborhood, and neighboring Wolishofen, without yarmulka are the exception, and stand out. Especially on Saturday .

On rare occasions around high holidays, for example, the Synagogue will request a security detail. Don't know why. The request for extra security comes from the Synagogue. But there has never been an attack ever.

Yet, years ago there was an incident were human feces was smeared in the doors of the Catholic Church on the edge of Enge, with a note it did not belong there, and some reference to reformation and founding charter of Enge. Surely some nutcase. That was all.

Oh, I forgot, there was more recently an incident where swasticas were painted on dumpsters. But that was done by a young man from the yeshiva, wearing a Yarmika . He was already known by everyone in the neighborhood to have a few missing marbles. It was ignored just as all the other strange stuff he would write onto walls was ignored.

Nope. Saudi Arabia is also strongly behind a very hard line against Iran. Like Israel the KSA has whipped up their citizens into a state of constant fear, thinking Iran want's to attack them.

Israel and Saudi Arabia are on the same sheet of music here. In fact John McCain and a few other of his Senate buddies and defenders of Israel arrived in Saudi today!

These guys are not only working hard for Israel in the halls of the Senate, but also Israel's new best friend, that pretend and in many ways disgusting "Kingdom" which dragged a woman down the street and publicly beheaded her just hours before MCain and other Senators arrived.

Blame 'em all.

Ps: By "disgusting kingdom" I do not mean the people of KSA. I mean the rulers and how they rule over and thieve their own. We have the British to thank for so much re the modern Middle East and their puppets they keep in power and even to which they give legitimacy -- I.e.giving Middle East "Royals" receptions by the Queen. (I now understand the anti Royalists.)

Activists should be on the steps of Congress with exactly this message every day. Their ranks will swell from week to week.

That is what Congress rats are most afraid of -- being exposed and losing their comfy perches. The more our paid off legislators are called to answer for their support of extremists beliefs, bankrolled by the US taxpayer, the more fearful they will become.

I think it was inner breeding... what's "inner breeding?" When one of my inner eggs breeds with another inner egg?

. The Eastern European Jews came out of the Iranian Jews migrating north to avoid the Romans. Where did you pull that one from?

Jeff, do you know what it means today when a Pole calls someone a Samaritan? It is a term for a fake with airs, a fraud. And who were the Samaritans of Poland?

They were 17th and 18th century Polish nobles and the upper class who believed in the cultivated myth that they came from legendary Iranian tribes. You know, a people not related to the unwashed peasants of Eastern Europe, but something apart with a grander and longer documented culture. (You know, sort of like the Ayrian "race.") So you are telling us that the Jews of Eastern Europe were Samaritans -- Iranians who went to Poland. I'd love to see a reaction to that statement at a party in Poland.

As for your ideas on Jewish migration before the decay of Rome. Jews were still there, all around (but not within the walls of Jerusalem after the revolts for "security" reasons.) You might want to read some good and objective history.

Start with Peters, The Monotheists. He is an atheist, a historian and does not take "sides."

It is your side that is obsessed with race while calling Zionists racists. Oh, it is about "sides?"

Zionists individuals may not be racists, but Zionist ideology is inherently as racist as all blut und boden ideas of the late 19th century were. The racist tenets of Zionism cannot be denied.

It is the Zionist project, the Israeli government that has spent so much time and effort trying to establish the idea, concept "fact" of a Jewish race. With money being poured into "research" to define things like the "Cohen or Levi" gene. Because once that is made a "fact" the way for the "return of exiles" is paved. Zionism is "obsessed" with ideas of race. Race ideology is a pillar of Zionism.

Point is no one is returning to anything, but an idea, a myth.

You know, just as you say, Most country’s founding myths are stupid

JeffB, what is your education? Have you traveled? Met and learned and lived with people of various backgrounds?

BTW, what Judaic "memes" do the Bnei Menashe of Burma (you know that "lost tribe") who have immigrated to Israel share with a Jew of Paris or New York or Tel Aviv? After all, they had to convert from Christianity and study Judaism first before "returning."

Lapid is a zionist he believes in qibbuṣ galuyoth (the return of the exiles). I do understand that qibbus galuyoth is a Zionist idea.

But the idea and belief that a bunch of Jewish Europeans with ancestral roots all over the place (most with nothing to do with Semitic peoples of the middle east) makes me want to vomit.

Sorry, I said it. But that is how I feel, I just ate dinner.

The brainwashing is immense. Milokowsky (Beebs or whatever is name is) is a Pole and the Jews of Eastern Europe were a population (like many) that adopted Judaism in the 2nd and 3rd centuries.

When the Roman Empire fell apart so did the social and economic life of many Roman territories, including Jerusalem. People emigrated for other opportunities. And from that part of the world, they mostly stayed in the Mediterranean and Middle East and North Africa. And by that time, conversions of peoples to Judaism was already unfolding in northern and eastern Europe, ie. the Caucuses.

(Based on the size of the Jewish population of Eastern and Central Europe in the middle ages, the idea that all Jews came from Palestine is absolutely implausible, impossible!)

There were probably more Jews (of the many Hebrew clans and tribes) BCE in what is now Yemen than there ever were in what we now call Palestine and Israel. (Which makes me wonder why didn't the Zios go to Yemen?)

In the mountains of Oman most all those villages that are many hundreds of years old are populated by tribes (in the real sense of the word) and clans that call themselves "Hebrew," and they have Hebrew names. They adopted Ibadism (a small sect of Islam) a few hundred years ago. (They immigrated from Yemen after drought and irrigation failure. )

Would European Zionism mythology allow qibbus galuyoth for these wonderful people who are true Semites and the familial decedents of the many Hebrew tribes?

Well, they would never go anyway. They do not like to even leave their mountains for a day.

Donald, I relate. And your words are so eloquent . I remember how shocked I was by the primitive spirit of revenge and violence, and the readiness to cast this onto a world they knew nothing about. How the propaganda and fear mongering whipped up, and soaked up by the public.

Yup, "the planned visit of the additional officials from the consulate was called off after the incident. "

Well, of course! squatters rule! Even if diplomatic protocols were not followed by the consulate ( is protocol needed on the OT?) it is the squatters right to attack, even kill US officials. Just read the comments in TW's link above. The settlers and their supporters (which our gov supports) would happily murder anyone investigating crimes. But we know this already.

And I am sending my taxes to this despicable enterprise? And so-called representative of the US tolerate this? Allow such attacks to intimidate them?

catporn, "it’s not being put there to protect the UK population is it."

Ha! It is being put there to prop up the Al-Kahlifas and the flow of dough from Bahrain and Qatar, etc. into the UK economy. The UK economy is now deeply dependent on that flow. Heck, 1/3rd of the prime commercial real estate in the UK is owned by Bahrain or Qatar. The UK has a whole lot of interests in the ME connected with and supported by their made up "Royals" they created out of Bedouin tribal leaders of the moment.

There are so many Brits working in these "Kingdoms" it is like the Philippines sending out their population to work in other countries and send the cash home. Would love to see the flow of funds into the UK from the Gulf States.

And it is resentment of these pretend Royals in Bahrain that feeds not only a growing opposition, but radical or extremist opposition groups. So that is the cycle. (The Qataris are still bought off and pampered by their monarch.)

The US 5thfleet sitting in Bahrain is the reactivated Pacific Fleet. How much longer will the US keep it there? Does the US have an interest in propping up the Al-Kahlifa's? Not really.

If the Brits thought the US would stay there, why would they move to build a naval base in Bahrain? And the US air base, Al Udeid in Qatar is, well.....it is a Qatari base and the US is a guest there, essentially protecting the "Kingdom." But for how long? And why?

If the rulers of Bahrain fall, there dominoes in the gulf will follow. Watch Bahrain.

After all, the US has never supported the UN and perhaps passively undermined it from the early days.

After WWII , and in Israel's early years, the US was in a position to influence and even enforce a lasting solution. There was no interest.

And with all the efforts and engagement of the UN envoy Bernadotte who was murdered by Shamir and Co., the IN was put into a path of failure. And the politics of Zionist extremism allowed to define the future of Israel. And the possibilities of two peoples building a common future snuffed out forever.

When time allows, this is an excellent must see documentary of the "Killing of the Count", the UN, and in a way, a peaceful future for Israel.

Rohan, yes, indeed, I agree the NT writers intended their story telling to be taken as truth. The Pauline letters, etc. the Christian church was making itself an institution.

As for the OT, I do not buy it. Heck even today the written words of formal contracts hold comparatively little worth in the ME. There are other means that the written words of formalizing agreements. And the act of writing, calligraphy of written words, an art. Imagine what little worth the written word had over the spoken word 2000+ years ago.

Point is Israel and it's Zionist supporters (frauds that they are) justify claims on the fictions of the OT, which even few Theologians, it seems, believe the stories were meant to be understood literally.

It is a bit superficial, but makes some good points: many stories did not exist in early translations, and some of the scribes who copied translations were illiterate themselves.

The bible was is only stories, meant to be understood as stories and not earthly reality.

So Zionism and the justification of support for Isreal is built on a fraud of literal biblical reading , and the MSM piece calls bible beaters and their politicians who twist it for agendas as ignorant frauds.

RoHa, I do not "know" anything, really. But if interested, work by Margaret Alexiou might help. There is also another author /historian and linguist who worked into these questions literalism, the written text and conceptual thought in the modern and ancient world. I forget her name at the moment.

And who was the philosopher who made the argument that when we document and record, the essence is no longer the truth and reality.? That such an act creates a new reality.

Point is, to believe something in a literal sense because we read it is how the modern mind thinks. 2000 years ago, that kind of thinking would be impossible . Earliest Christianity had no written bible or text. That came later with institutionalizations of a Church.

The sad thing is that when those texts were put down (and since revised and translated x times) there was no such conception of the "literal word." The idea of written text to be understood literally would be inconceivable .

Knowledge and understanding was passed through story-telling, metaphor from the known physical world for larger symbolic meaning. It is how the world and mind ticked 2000 + years ago.

The understanding to take a text for literal meaning is relatively new -- since the so called scientific enlightenment .

The Protestant and other literal interpretations of the Bible are simply bizarre and with a more primitive reception and understanding than the first desert dwellers to receive these text in whatever form.

Rocky, greetings. A little off topic on this thread, but when in MO, I've been told by people who consider themselves avid Christians, that the US depends on Israel, and that if anything ever happened to Israel, it would be the end of the USA.

Not that I wish ill on anyone or any country anywhere, but can you help many understand why it is that this idea of Zionist Israel and the US are in some kind of holy dependent union is preached?

And why all the Congressional reps and the two Senators from MO are mouth pieces for AIPAC, but not their constituents?

WRren, will not venture there. While she might be a quick study, she remains a one trick pony -- her speech stump is on the financial and related bankruptcy industry. She understands that the system had gorged out the center of the middle class -- a middle class essential to protect the uber class from the very lower class .

The conflict industry supporting colonialism in Israel is a creature of the uber class . She might not have yet connected that dot.

But fighting that battle will be her rapid death knell.

It is not just the money, but the machine, the blob of DC that will
crush her should she go there with an honest heart.

But interesting, is that the NYT just published a report on the legendary Marcel Opuls' project to make a film on the painful truths of Israel's colonialism. Complete with trailor and details to help with fund raising .

Great comment, Walid. And with threats to populations coming from Senior Israeli legislators, we now see significant security concerns when contracting Israeli firms for critical supplies and services.

Are you arguing that two states is wrong because Netanyahu is against it? no, you are projecting that which I neither said nor implied. Stop the Hasbarism. You know what I argued -- Israel will not accept a two state solution. The plan is to annihilate Palestinians over time.

Population increase or not is not the definition of genocidal actions. the actions of Israel against the Palestinian population are genocidal. Destruction of food production is just one example.

Israel is not a colonial enterprise . of course it is. In fact Zionists referred to Palestine as the colonial project through the 40's. The first Zionist bank establishe (bank Leuimi, I believe it is now called, was "the Colonial Bank of Palestine.). Zionism was defined as a colonial project!

in our own historic homeland.hmmm, insane nonsence. Sort of like ideas of being a descendent of the Knights of Templer, or the Arian "race." With that logic the region of a Palestine is historic to all kinds of people everywhere! The Jews of thousands of years ago were one of many groups in the vast area of the Middle East . And you know what? Many groups spent time in that part of the Mediterranean . So I, like mist all, can reach back into history and myths and stories and claim Israel as my historical "homeland."

Unless the Israeli successful transfer and kill off most all of the local Palestinians, they are not going anywhere .

Israel has two choices to establish peace: either finish off the ongoing genocide and expulsion of a people, or become a modern unified country, and return to being a home to many as the region of Palestine has always been.

The choice has always been in Israeli hands. The Zionists made that choice decades ago and that is why Israel finds itself a militarized, non Peaceful, dependent colonial enterprise.

It is not a state as it has no borders and no constitution and no treaties of alliance with any state.

Wow, as soon as Zahalka's speech entered dangerous truthful territory for the Zionists, Feiglin started constantly interrupting him with nonsense to prevent his speech. It was a classic Hasbara tactic to repress truth.

Unfortunately (but understandably) Zahalka lost his cool and gave the fascist room to remove him.

Truth on the Zionist project is like pouring water on the witch of the west. It won't survive truth, will melt away. That is why it must destroy anyone like an Arendt or Zahalka, speaking truth.

British ties to Middle Eastern states, pretend states or kingdoms (whatever we want to call them run very deep.) even the young Emir of Qatar asked for and got a private meeting with the Queen a few weeks ago. Bibi or Lieberman won't get that

These countries were British protectorates, their economies are very connected, even today. Britain is not sending aid to these countries, but is, indirectly, to Israel.

Considering how many Brits are working in these countries and how much is invested in Britain, one could make the argument that Britain is dependent on aid from some ME countries.

And as talkinc points out, Israeli Zionist forces carried out murderous attacks on the British . Israel has never made amends, let alone acknowledged this.

The failure to establish a Palestinian state while they could, might be one of the most grievous blunders of the overall mess the British made of the Middle East .

Give one reason why the British would grace Israel with their royal symbols of state, Empire and recognition?

Not too far away in Greensboro, NC the lunch counter protest started. This was one of the catalysts in the Civil Rights movement, but even more so, it is marked as the real start of the student movement of the 1960's. The causes expanded to the anti war movement and student rebellions (for whatever) in the late 60's , but this was the start:

How can she be such a tool? She is a politician, this is what they do. She wants to be elected.

When there is as much political capital to be had examining the logic of holding Israel up at the expense of US interests, as there is examining the banking industry as it now operates, she will go for that.

Face it, questioning Israel is a death knell in the US. Israel is the 51 st state, but with no borders and no constitution.

Yes, it is sickening. But (and am so sorry to start with. "But...") this is how the sad game of national US politics must be played. She entered this game and these are the rules.

If she does not play this hand, the machine will destroy her with a viciousness of a rabid dog. And when it goes against a woman, they prey is just a bit easier.

Face it: anyone on the national political stage must prostrate itself to the Zionist project. She knows that and has no problem with the dishonesty needed, and the long term damage to US interests.

And underneath her fighting exterior, she is still a lightweight. A one trick pony. She knows banking and finance law. That is all. Unlike the rest of Congress and Senate she can duel with the thieving financial industry and their enablers. But that is all.

The Zio machine is working hard to capture her first. Before she gets any ideas, or starts to think on her own, that is.

And our government does not work in the interest of its citizens, but for the interests that capture the US government .

Seafoid, please add the physically and mentally disabled. Thousands upon thousands (mostly children) were "exterminated" to use the language at the time. In fact, there was an entire field of study of pathology dedicated to examine their remains.

Another category were those the government found politically uncomfortable .

JackD might be intelligent, but is obviously ignorant or an untruthful schmeil. It is sad to see such a display and waste of what may be an intelligent, but utterly brainwashed person using his brain to promote Hasbara.

If his family is well-to-do or not has zip relevance to intelligence. Geesh!

As for your other blah blah about ignorance and lies, I'm not smart enough to get your point. Maybe my family was not well-to-do enough.

@jackdraw, obviously you do care what they wear as it was you, and only you, who brought up the diversion of what you believed women must wear in Jordan or the West Bank.

So now you create another diversion in Hasbara fashion and pretend that the authorities were only protecting these women from Jews. And that you just don't want that to happen....and then top it off that I wouldn't want that either.

You are really full of it.

First you denigrate the young women and upon making a fool of yourself, you turn it around into faux concern. The balony is too thick.

As an aside this was filmed in a side room of a mosque. We do not know if these women wear head cover outside of a mosque. I suspect not.

So tell me -- now that you've changed the subject again -- how and why would resident Jews hassle and harm these women? Why is it, do you think, that they need protection from Jews in Israel?

Donald, you make an interesting point. I think few will see it that way, but I do see where you are coming from. So I agree there is room for interpretation of the card to go that way and work against it's intended message.

But I think it is too much calling it "dumb." I think most will understand it as am image of desecration of the so-called Holy Land and then forget about it on their way to the shopping mall.

That is mass media click bate with screaming headlines. The "information" industry does not exist to inform, but to get reader traffic, no matter what. And as is acknowledged, Jewish lives get more attention than "the other." It is all about attention.

As an aside and fwiw, MJ Rosenberg has publicly stated is is NOT a Zionist. While some may consider him a fringe "leftist liberal," I would bet that his sentiments reflect the majority of North Americans who identify with Judaism.

She concludes this piece with the story of how she was invited to speak at Harvard in 1976, and before she had a chance to even express the themes of her talk, the Zionists "Pro Israeli" groups shouted her down and called in the police to end the event. This was, of course, painful. And she, too, was invited as a Jewish speaker.

Then a young lady who was there did a sketch of her and gave it to her as a gift and dedicated it to her with the words, "blessed are the peacemakers."

Well said, Walid. Sheen confused the message by making theatre about himself. The very worst thing a journalist can do.

In fact there was no or little regard for the position of his hosts. He will leave Germany, but they are left there to apologize for the behavior of their guests. Gysi is their man in Parliament. The ladies who invited Sheen are now toast.

But most important, the important message delivered to Parliament is over shadowed by unnecessary theatrics.

No matter what one may think of Sheen's tactic or of the the Parliamentarian, Gysi -- a former Stasi spitzl, with a silver tongue and very expensive suit -- Sheen did really nothing to help the dialogue and his cause.

Not only did it give the German press red meat to paint sheen and Blumental as unhinged, it put their hosts from the Linke party in the position of making a public apology for Sheen's behavior. Not good.

Blumental had so much to say and his work is solid. This action did nothing to hurt Gysi and the tactics of silencing, but even helped him as it damaged the real message of Sheen and Blumental trip to Berlin.

Agreed. It seems a bit too much is being made out of a goofy and unfortunate translation.

While so many around the world and inside Israel absolutely abhor Netanyahu and his primitive destructive politics, making hay out of this clumsy translation discredits much of the good work and reporting on this site.

More interesting is that needy Netanyahu and the chattering machine got so worked up about an anonymous school yard taunt strangely reported by a discredited writer.

I fear most all Americans are, indeed, still clueless. But that is due to a 60 year old well-greased propaganda machine, lack of information, and a massively corrupted political system where elected officials are purchased. So "how do Hasbarists plant to re-benight America? How will it end? Maybe like this as a corrupt cop can no longer pull the wool over the isolated peasantry:

It will start to unravel when mainstream US media reports on, for example, this horrible event broadcast yesterday with use of actual tapes, records instead of hearsay that is easily dismissed: "The day Israel attacked America."

Obama is dealing with forces much more powerful and effective that those during his campaign. He is trying to get successful long lasting agreements with Iran. Agreements that would most likely stop nuclear weapon development programs and, most importantly, normalize relations well into the future.

Israel want's no agreement at all, and has an almost entire treasonous US Congress bought off to go against the US Administration and interests of the American public.

A long game is being played. Netanyahu and his co-horts do not know how to play it. Cannot see that normalized relations with Iran is also in Israeli interests. They are worried that the US will have a new and real friend in the ME and the days of their fear-mongering for US dollars will come to an end.

No you are not. And I think when his "story" came out, this was the immediate impression of many Journalists. The whole exchange was too calculated. And to be honest, I can imagine lots of private name calling when referring to Netty Ya Hoo, but repeating "chickenshit" is not one of them. It rings as a false little taunt. Nothing more.

And Goldberg is not known for careful or honest journalism, but well, putting his nose in certain places.

Matt Lee tweeted him a question:

Jeffrey Goldberg ‏@JeffreyGoldberg Oct 28

In which a senior administration official tells me that Bibi is a "chickenshit": link to theatlantic.com …
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Matt Lee ‏@APDiploWriter 24h24 hours ago

.@JeffreyGoldberg Is that the worst you have heard him called?

@APDiploWriter Nope.

Matt Lee ‏@APDiploWriter

.@JeffreyGoldberg Aha. I thought not.

It is a contrived soap opera and the Israeli PM, who takes himself too seriously walked right into the pile of chickenshit created by Goldberg.

Yes, this country can and does. Imagine what the US would do if so many American citizens were killed/maimed by, say, even Canadian or Italian forces? It makes the US a laughing stock and very damaging to the country.

But our Congress is bought off by foreign interests and has paymasters other than their constituents.

Lerner also suggests “a counter offensive” that would be “launched against Qatar, ISIS and Hamas to focus our concerns on terrorists who seek to kill our People around the world.”

Not only is that the classic diversion strategy, but it is so completely unhinged on so many levels.

The Lerner's of the world are very sick. But then again, the Israeli President just stated the same thing about much of Israeli society.

Lerners are going to get nowhere with their paranoid -- those who seek to kill our people around the world hysterics. The US has a huge high-tech air base in Qatar (built by the Qatari Government.) Qatar is buying as many weapons as possible to the tune of billions from the US arms industry. Meanwhile, Israel just closed a 525 million missile deal with India. And has increasing ties with China to feed it's militarization. Perhaps the US and Israeli relationship is a mutual nuisance.

But when Israel is no longer a guaranteed customer to the US arms industry, and instead a competitor and increasingly strong supporter of India and China; and when the money stops flowing between D.C. and Tel Aviv, not even members of Congress will continue to fetch and lie down for Israel.

Rotten as their Government may be, (but that never stopped anyone in the US Congress/Senate) the action will be in Iran for the next decades. And this is what freaks Israel out. This will be Obama's legacy. And huge opportunities for much of US industry, not only arms.

And meanwhile PR firms and Hillel s will spend their time whipping up fears about bogey men who want to "kill their people around the world." Crawl out of self imposed bunker and smell the coffee.

The world is moving on, they should focus on how they can be part of it.

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